Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Winspear at Heffers

Join Heffers Bookstore
Cambridge for a rare visit fromJacqueline Winspear who is visiting
Heffers on 20th August 2014 to talk about her latest, standalone book:Care and
Management of Lies.By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden,
friends since girlhood, have become strained – by Thea’s passionate embrace of
women’s suffrage and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom,
who runs the family farm.

When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between
Britain and Germany, Thea’s gift to Kezia is a book on household management – a
veiled criticism of the bride’s ordinary life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to
fight and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield herself, the farm
becomes Kezia’s responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing
cataclysm and turmoil.

As Tom marches to the front lines and Kezia battles to keep her ordered
life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters filled with stories
woven to bring comfort. But will well-intended lies and self- deception be of
use when they come face-to-face with the enemy?Jacqueline Winspear was born
and raised in Kent and emigrated to the USA in 1990. She has written
extensively for journals, newspapers and magazines, and has worked in book
publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. Her acclaimed Maisie Dobbs
crime series, set in the aftermath of WWI, is beloved by readers worldwide, who
can now also follow her Maisie Dobbs Blog: Inspirations from an Extraordinary
Generation.